Using iframe in an user-macro

Martin Kellner

I would like to use an iframe to have an alternative pdf preview:

- If I hardcode the src the pdf opens in the iframe.

<iframe src="${config.getDomainName()}/download/attachments/${content.getIdAsString()}/${paramPDFattachmentName}" > alternative text </iframe>

- If I use the variable construction as shown above I get a dialog box to select between "save" and "open with" for the pdf in Firefox. The pdf is opened externally in the reader. If I use Chrome the pdf file is downloaded.

Is there any way to make it open in the iframe?

The Adaptavist inline macro has the same behavior but you have to use the complete url. The html macro works, but the syntax is more complex for "normal" users and you also need the complete url.

Martin Kellner

Hi Wayne,

this doesn't help either.

I use variables to feed the src-argument. If I use a fixed source url it already worked in the pass. There is also another problem if you have whitespaces or e.g. brackets in the filename and you pass the filename through a parameter. I had a testfile that has both of this characters and it failed before the open file dialog opened for displaying the pdf in an external viewer.

Regards

Martin Kellner

An addition: The PDF preview is in confluence 5.5 much better than it used to be in 5.1. So I stopped working on this topic after updating our system.